Improvement in band-cutters  platforms for thrashing-machines



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Band-Cutters Platform for Thrashing-Mahines.

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IMPROVEMENT IN BAND-CUTTERS PLATFORMS FOR THRASHlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,678, dated February 1], 1873.

end it consists in the combination of devices more fully hereinafter described and claimed, and which I herein calla band-cutters platform, and the following, taken in connection with the drawing forming part of this specification, is such a description as Will enable others to make and use my invention.

Figure I is a plan viewrof a frame of a thrashing machine with my invention attached. Fig. II is aback view of the same.

A is a frame of a thrashing-machine; B, the feeder-s platform; and C, the band-cutters platform, one end of which is supported by aid of the pole a and the two chains or iron rods b b to the feeder-s platform B. The other end is held to B by aid of the pins c u inserted in the holes d d on the platform B.

In order to change the band-cutters platform G from one side of the machine to the other it is only necessary to unhook the pole a and the rods or chains b b from the side of the machine, and also to unhook the pins c c inserted in the holes d d. rEhe pole c being pivoted to the center of the platform and the rods turning in the eye staples f f allows the band-cutters platform C to be placed just as well on the other side of the feeders platform B and fastened to the frame in the same manner as herein shown.

Having thus described my invention, I desire to claim- An adjustable band-cutters platform, Cl, with the pole a, the rods or chains b b, and the pins c c, as herein described, for use in connection with the feeders platform of a thrashing-machine.

JAMES ALOYSIUS WALSH.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH P. HoDNETT, THOMAS P. HonNETT. 

